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Hu Xiaoyuan

HU XIAOYUAN

Veering Tai Kwun Contemporary 24 January–13 April 2025 Hong Kong
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Is breaking from our predetermined paths the only way to true awakening? In Veering, the artist Hu Xiaoyuan presents seven newly commissioned works, weaving together installation, sound, painting, and video to reveal the complex relationship between human destiny and natural evolution, addressing ultimate questions of individual survival and the meaning of life. Hu incorporates everyday materials like Aerospace grade aluminum, sea shells, organza silk, and corn fibre in her works. Through translucent drapes and lighting design, she creates unique pathways that blur the line between day and night, creating an ambiguous spatial experience. This setting guides visitors to reflect on enduring themes such as time, materiality, existence, and consciousness.

Veering is part of Tai Kwun Contemporary’s new Breakthrough series, which underlines emerging artistic positions through solo presentations, commissions, and innovative formats. For Spring 2025, Hu Xiaoyuan: Veering is presented alongside Alicja Kwade: Pretopia and _Maeve Brennan: Record_s. These solo exhibitions by three female artists explore materials and storytelling through diverse approaches.

Hu Xiaoyuan (b. 1977) often draws from her own nuanced perception and philosophical reflections on human nature, combining traces of the everyday and natural materials with traditional artistic mediums, blending in an acute sensitivity of material contrasts. Through an interdisciplinary practice that spans installation, video, sculpture, and painting, she creates a distinctive aesthetic that transcends specific experiences, probing the complex meanings of time, space, reality, and migration, along with other concepts embedded within existential themes.

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Tai Kwun Contemporary is the non-profit contemporary art hub within Tai Kwun, the heritage and arts precinct in Central, Hong Kong. Located in the city’s central business district, it anchors the site’s visual arts programme within a wider cultural destination that also includes heritage displays, performance venues, and public spaces across the former Central Police Station compound.

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JC Contemporary, Block 20
Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road
Central
Hong Kong
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Tuesday – Sunday
11am – 7pm
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Hong Kong JC Contemporary, Block 20, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road
Tai Kwun Contemporary contemporary art institution in Hong Kong
Tai Kwun Contemporary
JC Contemporary, Block 20, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
+ 852 3559 2600
http://www.taikwun.hk

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday
11am – 7pm
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